COSMETICS REPRESENTATIVES SAY EU CHEMICALS PLAN COULD OUTLAW HARMLESS PRODUCTS
November 2nd, 2020
PERSONAL care product industry representatives have criticised European Commission plans to table new toxic chemicals regulations, which they warn could outlaw use of some cosmetics ingredients even at safe levels.
The Commission’s Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS), published October 14, said the European Union (EU) executive plans to eliminate from cosmetics and other products carcinogenic, mutagenic, reprotoxic (CMR) and endocrine-disrupting substances. It also wants to ban chemicals that persist and accumulate in the environment or the body. (1) ...
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